User talk:Slaunger/Archives/2010/4

créole guadeloupéen, french wikipédia

As you asked in VIC, I illustrated this article with your photo. Regards from Paris.----Jebulon (talk) 15:03, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Bonjoir, Jebulon, et merci beaucoup de Guadeloupe! --Slaunger (talk) 09:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Blue and white shop

Hi Kim, what a wonderful photo of the shop and the dresses! This picture is making me want to paint a watercolor, so lovely! Hope you enjoy your trip in Guadeloupe! In Munich we have a little snow today. Greetings from Ingeborg! --Schnobby (talk) 08:27, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Only glad if I can show you something, which will make you want to paint a watercolor. We are enjoying the stay here. People er very friendly and hospitable, it is all very exotic and warm - well above 30 deg during the day and well above 20 deg during the night (nor aircondition), so I have a hard time imagining more snow. I have of course a lot of photos to upload, but I do not think I will spend too much time on that while I am here. --Slaunger (talk) 01:30, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Kim,

I just added your lovely photo of the blue and white clothes shop to the German article of Guadeloupe; hope you don't mind. I already painted six pictures of the photo; today with pastel colours (this was the best until now). But I'm going on! Every day one or two paintings! I love this work. Of course I'll show some of them to you. But on the last the watercolour still is wet... Have another fine days on the island! Enjoy the last hours and the temperature! Regards, Ingeborg --Schnobby (talk) 09:24, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ingeborg,

I am glad you like the shop so much. Maybe I should tell the owner that she has some new fans, and that her shop is on the German Wikipedia. I will be looking forward to seeing one of your paintings. Last whole day here today. We will remember to enjoy it. --Slaunger (talk) 10:16, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Welcome at home, Kim! I saw your photos; strange birds! What about the fish in the Carribean Sea? I painted 14 pictures of the blue and white shop, some of them nice enough to upload them in the next days. Thank you for the inspiration! Kind regards, Ingeborg --Schnobby (talk) 07:00, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, thank you, Ingeborg! You are certainly building up some expectations about the blue-white shop. I am getting very curious to see one of your aquarels in the next few days. There will be coming some fish photo, but not so many and not so great ones, as the underwater camera "drowned" quite early in our trip, just while I was getting used to using it :-( --Slaunger (talk) 08:16, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

That's a pity with your underwater camera. I expected to see at least a shark or a whale ;-))

I think that you get your money back. A camera has to work, hasn't it? But when do you fly to Guadeloupe again, that's the question. Perhaps you are going to Greenland like our friend Michael Martin does in this moment (the famous photographer, perhaps you know him) and can't go on because there is a snow storm of several days. Michael visited all the deserts of the earth and made wonderful books and slide shows about this and now he is visiting the ice deserts. He just was in Spitsbergen. His next book will deal with snow, ice, icebergs, polar bears, dogs and so on. You can find him in the German wikipedia under Michael Martin (Fotograf). So long for today, Ingeborg --Schnobby (talk) 12:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

I think there was a leak at a V-ring used to seal of the interior maybe due to a grain of sand. Maybe I did not clean it sufficiently well between uses, maybe the sealing was just not good enough, I do not know, but it is definately worth trying to get a warranty replacement. Thank you for telling me about Michael Martin. I had not heard of him before.

You story of Michael reminded me of a German photographer and painter that I suddenly met one day on the few streets of Upernavik, where he was trying to find someone who could speak either German or English. He was up there to paint and I got acquitanted with him. He showed me some books he had made with photos of deserts as well that he had published. He was from Berlin and as far as I recall his name was Herbert... Now I am sitting wondering how many German desert photo publishing photographers there are, who go to Greenland to look at ice?

When will I be seeing one of your water painting of the shop? I am very curous to seeing one of your creations. --Slaunger (talk) 20:44, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Sand or ice - these Germans are just looking for deserts, I think. If you live in a crowded town in Germany, you perhaps want to see the open air. I liked to paint the dunes in the Sahara, in the Gobi and in Namibia, too. - My husband will take photos of my paintings tomorrow. In the last days we had men who built a new little wooden house in our garden for work (repot, plant, write labels...), so we didn't have time to do other things. Have a nice day! Ingeborg --Schnobby (talk) 06:32, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Congratz with your new little, wooden garden house. Yes, I understand the longing amongst urbanized German citizen to get some fresh air. Almost each summer we meet with a German family of professional musicians and a conductor too who come to a not so well known, tranquile place in Denmark to just get some fresh air and relaxation and oppurtunitites to sail with their little katamaran. They are some of the most pleasing people to interact with. I will be looking forward to seeing your painting, but do not stress about it. Just take your time. --Slaunger (talk) 10:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Kim! The whole morning I was busy uploading eight pictures (out of fourteen) which lasted a long time because of the painting template. But now I can show you a little gallery:

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I wonder which you like most? - Nice to hear of Dragstrup Vig and to see the photo. Yes, a real fine landscape, not crowded, seems to be a very nice place to make holidays! We are going to southern England next month to see the famous gardens; one or two of them each day. I only hope that there will be no rain, as I want to draw, otherwise I could paint my watercolors with the pouring rain itself ;-)) Greetings from Ingeborg! (Schnorch is my second account here, only for my pictures) --Schnorch (talk) 10:07, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ingeborg! Lovely and really interesting to see those drawings. I have looked at them many times now, and I have printed them out in postcard size. They would make excellent postcards, you know? There are some, which I like better than others. I am mostly used at assessing photographs, so looking of several different paintings of the same subject is new thing for me to do, and I can feel that my brain is not well trained for that. But I do notice diffences in how the different paintings give the right feeling of light, colors, the wind and the whole atmosphere. I also notice some deliberate changes in how exactly you try to reproduce the shop as it looks in some paintings and how manage to introduce more dynamics of wind by rendering certain objects more abstract or fuzzy. My daughter likes File:Guadeloupe2.jpg the most (very good colors and details), and it is also one of my favorites competing with File:Guadeloupe7.jpg (good colors and clean composition) and File:Guadeloupe8.jpg (good feeling of the wind).

Do you have a personal favorite among them. If so I would be interested in knowing why?

I hope the wheather will be fine in a months time in England. I am so ignorant that I did not even know there was a high density of famous gardens there in the Southern parts. I did once wander around in some of the gardens belonging to some of the famous colleges in Oxford and found they had an intruiging atmosphere of exclusitivity and style. I think it had to do with the embedment with very nice classical architecture. --Slaunger (talk) 10:33, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Kim! Thank you for your opinion and praise! I myself don't have a personal favorite, perhaps the one where the clothes are more abstract and I tried to put light and dark watercolors exactly next to each other (Nr. 6). At the beginning the pictures were rather realistic, they are still quite a bit similar. In a few weeks I'll take up the theme and try to continue the abstraction. I'm sure you know the "Bull" by Picasso and the advance from realism to only a few lines. In this case I want for example to indicate the shop with very delicate and clear colors and weave a carpet of blue and white out of the clothes. But it is necessary to wait some time and to rebegin with fresh senses and ideas.

Concerning the English gardens, a lot of them were formed and designed by famous authors, painters, gardeners, shipowners, bankers and of course the high society, for instance Rudyard Kipling or Virgina Woolf. We shall visit among others Sissinghurst, the garden of Vita Sackville-West and Groombridge Place, where the director Peter Greenaway shot the film: The Contract of the Artist. I am already reading many books about all these gardens and the famous gardeners like Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens, Beth Chatto, Phyllis Reiss, Penelope Hobhouse, Margery Fish and Rosemary Verey. Did you know that England is the land with the most gardens open to the public, even private ones? - Greetings from Munich, Ingeborg --Schnobby (talk) 15:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

A Barnstar, Wow !

Dear friend, I'm very proud with this award, and very touched too. I try to do my best, and I am very interested by the work of all of friends here. I'm very happy if you enjoy my pictures. The world is fantastic, and all over us can surprise, may charm, or smile. There is every where something to learn or know (even in my own street!). And when I discover something, It's my pleasure to offer it to this community. I'm new here, only a few weeks ago. But I feel good. Many many thanks, and best regards from Paris.--Jebulon (talk) 22:16, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Salut Jebulon, The barnstar is well deserved. Your positive attitude and enthusiasm is much appreciated. Best wishes, --Slaunger (talk) 10:14, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

A favor?

Hi Kim, welcome back. I hope you had a nice vacation. When you have a time, could you please try to upload a new version of any image over an old one. For some reason I cannot do it anymore. Admins are able to do it, but I wonder, if somebody without the tools could. Maybe I am missing something. Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:05, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Mila, Thanks it was a very nice vacation. Before I try uploading a new version of a file, I'd like to ask if you have tried following the advice given in Mediawiki:Sitenotice, which should be at the top of your browser window unless you have dismissed the message? --Slaunger (talk) 18:16, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

No, I did not. Okay I will try to read it first. Maybe then I will understand what I am doing wrong. Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 19:25, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Orthorhyncus cristatus

• Il est un peu sombre, m’autorises-tu as essayer de modifier l’image ?
• It is a bit dark, allowing me you try to change the picture?

--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 07:35, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome! Yes, I agree that it is dark at the head, as the background is unfortunate and it is midday sun coming from almost straight ahead. If only you knew how much time I have spend running after this hummingbird with my camera - it is days. As I only have a 200 mm tele it is difficult to get close enough to this very small and fast bird. I can also send you the raw file if you would rather like to work with that? --Slaunger (talk) 09:08, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Darn, you are good at this. It is much better now! Merci beaucoup! --Slaunger (talk) 10:59, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Commons:Village_pump#Proposal_for_revamp_of_MOTD

Hey, Slaunger, could I pull you into this project? Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:17, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey Adam, certainly a relevant task to undertake. I wish I could help, but right not I am loaded with IRL commitments and it would be unrealistic to commit myself to such a task at present. --Slaunger (talk) 19:47, 22 April 2010 (UTC)